asgeasy.blogg.se - Font used in manga translations

So tailor the font you use to match best the manga you’re working on. Every manga has different line weight, thickness, funkiness, shading. Typesetting is art but, it isn’t really that hard. If you have to, you can make the text smaller.

Try not to let a word break or split up by a hyphen.

A good sense for centering is a must too. Positioning is quite important to make your text flow with the action in your scene.

Just about all dialogue and thought text should be center aligned.

Choosing your fonts is a personal choice, be consistent in your choice of fonts, nothing is more distracting than the font used for someone’s speech changing constantly.

Use an all-caps font for your main text, a handwritten font for small text, and a variety of different fonts for sound effects. Many manga/comic fonts are all caps, but if they’re not, remember to do so when needed.Avoid the Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Arabian take-out fonts too, while you’re at it, unless you’re typesetting a sign for a local restaurant, local name or something.Avoid Comic Sans at all costs (die-hard manga fans hate it above all else).There are some advises when choose a font for your manga/comic:

Do you know? The standard font used in English translated manga today is based on the lettering styles used in both newspaper comic strips and superhero comics. That’s why we need unique fonts which can show characters’ emotions, sounds, actions … for each of these situations. There are many types of text in any given comic or manga, such as Normal conversational text (this is your primary text), Thoughts, Scene Queues, Background Descriptions (no text bubble or rectangular blocks typically), Soft Voice/Aside, Yelling are just some of the examples.įonts get a lot of their meaning and context from their use in other contexts. The fonts used in the comics and animation is completely different with other document types.